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Popular Sufi leader in Morocco dies

Published January 19, 2017 Updated January 19, 2017 12:00am

The head of one of Morocco's biggest Sufi orders, with tens of thousands of followers at home and abroad, died Wednesday aged 95, an official and local media said. Sheikh Sidi Hamza al-Qadiri al-Boutchichi was the spiritual leader of the Qadiriya Boutchichiya order.
He died in the north-western city of Oujda and was to be buried in the nearby town of Madagh where he was born and his order is based, local media reported.